How Bertrand Russell Saved Ludwig Wittgenstein's Life 

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I read somewhere that his sister was always concerned with his "oddness" as a child. One day she asked "Ludwig, why are you so strange?" Apparently the child Wittgenstein replied "Through this window, you see a man in the street walking strangely. But what you cannot see through the closed window, is the raging storm he is walking into"

Brilliant analysis of Wittgenstein, really enjoyed it!!

Each time I re-read the Philosophical Investigations, my mind is blown anew.

Brilliant, wonderful. my husband is a philosopher thinker and much, much more, so I have in all our 45 years together heard him speak of Wittgenstein. Thank you!

What makes me wonder even more is how many potential great minds were wasted because they were not in the perfect position. Just imagine Wittgenstein's luck was not high enough to put him in this lucky position to meet Russel, he would've decided and we would've never heard of him. This terrifies me when I realize that maybe hundreds were unlucky, and who knows what they could've provided to us. Thank you for the video!

It says a lot for Russel that he was willing to support Wittgenstein. One can hardly imagine two less compatible philosophers.

While Ray Monk’s ‘Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius’ offers a good biography for Wittgenstein . I would recommend ‘Wittgenstein's Tractatus: A Dialectical Interpretation’ by Matthew B. Ostrow.

You are a great storyteller!

Keep up the excellent work. I enjoy your unique and sometimes poetic description of the different philosophers.

I am impressed by this tribute to two very great men with great obvious care for their contributions to Philosophy. I was a bit surprised to hear you say that Vegan Stein stopped his work pretty much with the truck Tardes, but he later shifted away from that logical positive his perspective to embrace the more post modern, meaning is use paradigm. I wonder if you can speak about that and the significance of that in the field of philosophy as well.

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Thank you for sharing.

Very well done analysis on Wittgenstein! You have done quite well my good sir!

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Having finished the Tractatus and now deep in the PI I had to revisit this. Thank you again (Ex post facto) for your amazing work which constantly delights and provides impetus in me.

Talk about intense - there is one philosophical truth we can agree on, Ottoline was mesmerizingly beautiful.

really interesting, thanks!

Great video thank you

Excellent video, clear and substantive. thanks

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Thank you for this incredible story. I never knew that Russel + Wittgenstein were so connected. What a fantastic experience Ive had enjoying your delivery here. Happy New Year 🎊

The adventure of life is to learn what I find interesting And remember what matters to me. Teaching is even more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: Encouragement and inspiration because genuine interest cannot be forced. Not forcing is Wu wei

Wonderful video.

Good work! Exactly what I was after, and succinct/comprehensive. What book/s are these quotes from?

Nice video. The audio is slightly off though. You can only tell when the narrarator is shown on screen. His lips don't quite match the words. They're off by a fraction of a second.

One must also add that to begin to understand Wittgenstein one must also comprehend his Jewishness and the history of neurosis outlined by Freud. In this sense he is a distant cousin to other tormened souls like Franz Kafka.

Hello, i would like to ask an advise from you regarding the best introductory books on Wittgenstein. Thanks

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Thank you for your video. I have a query: What writing did W. give Russell that helped W. choose philosophy over aeronautics?

The narrator's voice reminds me that of Moriarty (from the series Sherlock)

Der Lehrer schreibt den Satz "Worüber man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen" mit Kreide an die Tafel. Der zwölfjährige Markus muss kurz lachen, versinkt dann aber in tiefes Grübeln. Erstaunt, ergänzt der Lehrer das Zitat mit einem Bindestrich und dem Namen des Autors; anders, als es ursprünglich vor hatte und lässt sich beim Schreiben auch mehr Zeit, als üblich. Auf seine gütmütige Art, erkundigt sich der Lehrer beim Schüler, wie es zu seiner belustigten, erstaunten bis grübelnden Reaktion kam. Markus war immer noch gefesselt und tief versunken in Gedanken, aber schon auf eine Frage gestossen, die er dem Lehrer stellen wollte: "Wie kann es sein, dass ein Satz über etwas sprechen kann, worüber man nicht sprechen kann?"

"This is for the real adepts in madness, who have gone beyond all psychiatry, psychoanalysis, who are unhelpable. This third book is again the work of a German, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Just listen to its title: TRACTATUS LOGICO PHILOSOPHICUS. We will just call it TRACTATUS. It is one of the most difficult books in existence. Even a man like G.E.Moore, a great English philosopher, and Bertrand Russell, another great philosopher - not only English but a philosopher of the whole world - both agreed that this man Wittgenstein was far superior to them both. Ludwig Wittgenstein was really a lovable man. I don't hate him, but I don't dislike him. I like him and I love him, but not his book. His book is only gymnastics. Only once in a while after pages and pages you may come across a sentence which is luminous. For example: That which cannot be spoken should not be spoken; one should be silent about it. Now this is a beautiful statement. Even saints, mystics, poets, can learn much from this sentence. That which cannot be spoken must not be spoken of. Wittgenstein writes in a mathematical way, small sentences, not even paragraphs - sutras. But for the very advanced insane man this book can be of immense help. It can hit him exactly in his soul, not only in the head. Just like a nail it can penetrate into his very being. That may wake him from his nightmare. Ludwig Wittgenstein was a lovable man. He was offered one of the most cherished chairs of philosophy at Oxford. He declined. That's what I love in him. He went to become a farmer and fisherman. This is lovable in the man. This is more existential than Jean-Paul Sartre, although Wittgenstein never talked of existentialism. Existentialism, by the way, cannot be talked about; you have to live it, there is no other way. This book was written when Wittgenstein was studying under G.E.Moore and Bertrand Russell. Two great philosophers of Britain, and a German... it was enough to create TRACTATUS LOGICO PHILOSOPHICUS. Translated it means Wittgenstein, Moore and Russell. I, on my part, would rather have seen Wittgenstein sitting at the feet of Gurdjieff than studying with Moore and Russell. That was the right place for him, but he missed. Perhaps next time, I mean next life... for him, not for me. For me this is enough, this is the last. But for him, at least once he needs to be in the company of a man like Gurdjieff or Chuang Tzu, Bodhidharma - but not Moore, Russell, not Whitehead. He was associating with these people, the wrong people. A right man in the company of wrong people, that's what destroyed him. My experience is, in the right company even a wrong person becomes right, and vice-versa: in a wrong company, even a right person becomes wrong. But this only applies to unenlightened men, right or wrong, both. An enlightened person cannot be influenced. He can associate with anyone - Jesus with Magdalena, a prostitute; Buddha with a murderer, a murderer who had killed nine hundred and ninety-nine people. He had taken a vow to kill one thousand people, and he was going to kill Buddha too; that's how he came into contact with Buddha. The murderer's name is not known. The name people gave to him was Angulimala, which means 'the man who wears a garland of fingers'. That was his way. He would kill a man, cut off his fingers and put them on his garland, just to keep count of the number of people he had killed. Only ten fingers were missing to make up the thousand; in other words only one man more.... Then Buddha appeared. He was just moving on that road from one village to another. Angulimala shouted, "Stop!" Buddha said, "Great. That's what I have been telling people: Stop! But, my friend, who listens?" Angulimala looked amazed: Is this man insane? And Buddha continued walking towards Angulimala. Angulimala again shouted, "Stop! It seems you don't know that I am a murderer, and I have taken a vow to kill one thousand people. Even my own mother has stopped seeing me, because only one person is missing.... I will kill you... but you look so beautiful that if you stop and turn back I may not kill you." Buddha said, "Forget about it. I have never turned back in my life, and as far as stopping is concerned, I stopped forty years ago; since then there is nobody left to move. And as far as killing me is concerned, you can do it anyway. Everything born is going to die." Angulimala saw the man, fell at his feet, and was transformed. Angulimala could not change Buddha, Buddha changed Angulimala. Magdalena the prostitute could not change Jesus, but Jesus changed the woman. So what I said is only applicable to so-called ordinary humanity, it is not applicable to those who are awakened. Wittgenstein can become awakened; he could have become awakened even in this life. Alas, he associated with wrong company. But his book can be of great help to those who are really third-degree insane. If they can make any sense out of it, they will come back to sanity."

Dude, I love Wittgeinstein, he's like me in a way.

And yet Wittgenstein never understood Gödel's theorems... :D (let the games begin)

Great presentation. But Pronounced "Prinkipia" Mathematica.

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Mothers, don't raise your sons to be cowboys or philosophers.

He and his suicidal brothers were quite mad. I call emperor's new clothes, his writing is eccentric and maybe even trendy but not that great and certainly nonsense in part.

Who cares?

Wittgenstein was a shell-shocked neurotic whose contribution to philosophy did more to give it a bad name, than anything else. Unsubscribe.